Legacy Fighting Alliance 175: Lopes vs. Brigagão will be a mixed martial arts event promoted by Legacy Fighting Alliance and that take place on January 27, 2024 at the Ginásio do Polvilho in Cajamar, Brazil.


Fight Card

Main Card (UFC Fight Pass)

Light Heavyweight Bruno Lopes (c) vs. Marcos Brigagão Light Heavyweight Championship
Lightyweight Samuel Silva vs. Anderson Ferreira
Bantamweight Rafael Pereira vs. Fernando Laurenço
Bantamweight Apollo Gomes vs. Vinicius Pires
Middleweight Marco Tulio vs. Cemey dos Santos
Women's Strawweight Lany Silva vs. Naizi Cantanhede

Preliminary Card

Light Heavyweight Kevin Christian vs. Miguel Porto
Women's Bantamweight Andreyna Rocha vs. Nicoly Pedroza
Lightyweight Marcos Bruno vs. Juan Pablo Vieira
Heavyweight Talisson Teixeira vs. Arthur Fonseca
Women's Strawweight Gabriela Fujimoto vs. Sabrina Oliveira
Welterweight Reginaldo Junior vs. Gustavo Henrique
Women's Flyweight Beatriz Consuli vs. Carol Foro
Women's Strawweight Aieza Bertolso vs. Fabrizia Ketlinn


Background

LFA will return to Brazil with the Light-Heavyweight Championship in January. LFA 175 will be the fifth LFA event to be held on a Saturday and it will be the fourteenth LFA event to take place in Brazil after the promotion’s international expansion began in the summer of 2021. This will also be the ninth LFA event to take place in the state of São Paulo, which is Brazil’s most populous state. LFA has also visited the Brazilian states of Rio de Janeiro and Pernambuco.

LFA 175: Lopes vs. Brigagão, presented by BetOnline, takes place Saturday, January 27th at the Ginásio do Polvilho in Cajamar, São Paulo, Brazil.

The main event will feature a light-heavyweight title fight when champion Bruno “Brunão” Lopes defends his title against top contender Marcos “Ironside” Brigagão.

“We are excited to bring the Light-Heavyweight Championship to Brazil at LFA 175,” stated LFA CEO Ed Soares. “The main event will feature the first title defense of the LFA light-heavyweight champion Bruno Lopes. He will face decorated prospect Marcos Brigagão. Lopes is looking to become the first 205-pound champion in LFA history to successfully defend his title, while Brigagão looks to show the hype is real after defeating a tough UFC veteran in his most recent bout. This is the perfect title fight to kick off our busy international schedule in 2024!”

Lopes (11-1) is a proud champion from Cotia, which is located just west of Brazil’s most populated city of São Paulo in the state of São Paulo. He represents both the China Team and Thiago Miranda Team located in his home state. It is there where he picked up a win in his LFA debut by submitting Mailton Azevedo at LFA 136. The submission earned him a shot at the title when the promotion traveled to Recife at LFA 143. Lopes made quick work of local Pernambucano standout Willyanedson Paiva to capture LFA gold. The win earned Lopes an invitation to compete on Dana White’s Contender Series this past summer, but he was not successful in earning a UFC contract. The 30-year-old will now look to protect the title that earned him that opportunity as he jumped at the chance to defend his title and headline the first LFA event in his country in 2024.

Brigagão (17-6) is a decorated prospect from Tapejara, Paraná, Brazil, which is located in the South Region of Brazil. The proud Paranaense has since relocated to Niterói, which is located across the Guanabara Bay facing the city of Rio de Janeiro. The PRVT product has compiled an impressive record with 17 wins in just 6 and half years competing in the sport. The most notable win on his résumé came against former LFA title challenger and Dana White’s Contender Series alum Acácio dos Santos via TKO in September 2021. Now the man known as “Ironside” takes aim at LFA gold, as he just like the champion, will be returning home to Brazil after most recently competing in Las Vegas. The 27-year-old won that fight just 10 days after Lopes competed on Dana White’s Contender Series and now looks to take champ’s strap in his first bout of 2024.

This week’s main event features a Light Heavyweight Title fight as the champion Bruno Lopes (11-1) returns for the first time since September 2022 to defend his title for the first time against Marcos Brigagao (17-6). Both men are Dana White Contender Series-veterans with Lopes coming off his first ever loss as a Pro on the show in September, while Brigagao lost to LFA-vet Jamal Pogues on the show in 2019. Lopes is ranked #10 by Tapology in Brazil at 205 lbs and has 9 finishes in 11 victories. Brigagao is ranked #6 in Brazil and has 15 finishes in 17 victories. The two have combined for 16 first-round finishes. Both men have good striking pedigrees, but the BJJ Black Belt, Bruno Lopes should have the edge on the ground.
Our co-main event promises fireworks as strikers Samuel Silva (11-4-1) and Anderson Ferreira (18-4) square off at Lightweight. Silva has rattled off 3 wins in a row including a win over DWCS-vet Rodrigo Lidio at LFA 166 in September. He’s Tapology’s #15 ranked Lightweight in Brazil and has 10 finishes in 11 wins. Ferreira has won 4 fights in a row and along with an impressive MMA resume, he has won world titles in Kickboxing/Muay Thai. He is ranked #12 in Brazil and has finishes in all but one of his Pro victories (16 KOs, 1 Sub). The two have combined for 23 first-round finishes and both fighters were nominated for “Fight of the Year” in the 2023 Fan’s Choice Awards, so you can expect them to provide another nominee here.

Also on the card:

– Fresh off a win on Dana White Contender Series in August, Marco Tulio (10-1) returns to the LFA for a second time to take on newcomer Cemey Dos Santos (6-4) at Middleweight. Tulio earned a Decision win and 6th straight win on DWCS in August, but was not awarded a UFC contract. His last fight in the LFA was exactly a year ago at LFA 151 where he got a Round 1 TKO win. He is Taplogy’s #3 ranked Middleweight in Brazil and has 7 finishes in 10 wins. Dos Santos is returning to MMA for the first time since February 2020 after battling some injuries. Hailing from Rio, he is a Black Belt in Muay Thai with 4 KO wins out of his 6 Pro victories. A lot of combined first-round finishes in this one as well, with 10 between Tulio and Dos Santos.
– In a rematch from a fight way back in 2016, Fernando Laurenco (17-3) returns to the LFA to take on Rafael “Mini Man” Pereira (10-4). Laurenco handed Pereira his first Pro loss back in November 2016. Laurenco is a Black Belt in BJJ and Tapology’s #3 ranked Bantamweight in Brazil. He has won 11 straight including a Round 1 Submission win in his LFA Debut at LFA 166 in September. Pereira has embraced Muay Thai since his first fight versus Laurenco. He comes in riding a 5-fight win streak and has Black Belts in both BJJ and Muay Thai. The two have combined for 14 finishes, 12 in the first round.
– Our second fight of the night features 2023 Fan’s Choice winner for “Female Fighter of the Year” Lany Silva (4-0) versus Naizi Cantanhede (6-0) in a battle of unbeaten Strawweights. Silva won 3 fights with the LFA in 2023, but this will be her first appearance on the main card. Hailing from Salvador, but now living and training in Sao Paulo, she is a National Kickboxing champion and Pan-American Jiu Jitsu Champion. Cantanhede also had a successful 2023, winning a pair of fights after a 5-year layoff. She has 3 finishes in 6 Pro wins and has definitely faced tougher competition than Silva. This will be a good test for the Fan’s Choice Award winner.
– We kick off the Main Card with Sao Paulo bragging rights on the line as grappler Vinicius Pires (8-1) meets striker Apollo Gomes (9-1). Pires has won 7 straight fights including back-to-back fights in the LFA. He is a Black Belt in BJJ with 3 wins via submission and he trains out of Mehhh MMA in Sao Paulo. Gomes trains with the killers at Chute Boxe Diego Lima in Sao Paulo and has won back-to-back fights. He has 7 finishes in 9 wins with 3 coming in the first round.

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